2010.02.03.16:43:56 EST Hi Jim and cygwin-xfree folks,
I had the same problem that Jim was experiencing. I had started with cygwin-1.7 back in August, and over the course of the autumn months had my difficulties with startxwin.bat. Among the things that I did to make startxwin.bat work was to have the environment variable CYGWIN set to: CYGWIN = tty notitle glob When I stepped up to startxwin.exe in late December/early January, it would start the Xwin server, but my xterm would always hang. I retained startxwin.bat for a few weeks while I scanned the postings for information. Jim Reisert's hint, about removing the "tty" setting from the CYGWIN environment variable, was what got the startxwin.exe going for me. Now that my variable states only CYGWIN = notitle glob the xterm starts up nicely within a few seconds after Xwin.exe is initialized. Mucho gracias, Jim! George gbarr...@walsh.edu -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/